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The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform
Brazil is renowned worldwide for its remarkable reforms in pharmaceutical regulation, which have enhanced access to essential medicines while lowering drug costs. This book innovates by analysing the generic drug reform in Brazil, demonstrating that pharmaceutical regulation is only partially influenced by non-state actors. Little is known about the institutional antecedents and policy process…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-12565-7
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- Politik
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Political Science
- Call Number
- 324
Transforming Institutions : Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
"Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive in the 21st-century workplace. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that many global issues will require creative and critical thinking deeply rooted in the technical STEM (science, tec…
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- -
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- 9781557537249
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- -
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- 370 WEA t
A Task for Sisyphus : Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up why Roma policies fail on European and national levels as follows: failure to define the target group; to provide good information and data; to establish a mechanism for effect…
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- -
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- 9789633863190
- Collation
- 380 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320 ROS t
The Onlife Manifesto
What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-04093-6
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- -
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- XIV, 264
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The State, Business and Education : Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
The State, Business and Education contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding the effects of public funding of private entities by examining the ways in which they affect the quality and equity of those services, and the realization of human rights. Using case studies from both the developing and developed world this book illustrates the variety of ways in which private actors have expanded …
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- -
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- 9781788970334
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- 208 halaman
- Series Title
- NORRAG Series on International Education and Development
- Call Number
- 370 STA
Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform : Global Perspe…
This global collection brings a new perspective to the field of comparative education by presenting trust, capacity and accountability as the three building blocks of education systems and education system reform. In exploring how these three factors relate to student learning outcomes across different international contexts, this book provides a powerful framework for a more equal system. Dr…
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- 9781000330823
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- 324 halaman
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 TRU
Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa : Some Practical Le…
Looking at two smaller-scale systemic school improvement projects implemented in selected district circuits in the North West and Eastern Cape by partnerships between government, JET Education Services, and private sector organisations, this book captures and reflects on the experiences of the practitioners involved. The Systemic School Improvement Model developed by JET to address an identifie…
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- 9781920677466
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- -
- Series Title
- -
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- 370 KHO s
Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
This book provides an analysis of the global monetary system and the necessary reforms that it should undergo to play an active role in the twenty-first century. As its title indicates, its basic diagnosis is that it is an ad hoc framework rather than a coherent system—a ‘non-system’—which evolved after the breakdown of the original Bretton Woods arrangement in the early 1970s. The book…
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- 9780198718116
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- -
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- -
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Indoor Thermal Comfort Perception A Questionnaire Approach Focusing on Children
Providing a methodology for evaluating indoor thermal comfort with a focus on children, this book presents an in-depth examination of children’s perceptions of comfort. Divided into two sections, it first presents a history of thermal comfort, the human body and environmental parameters, common thermal comfort indexes, and guidelines for creating questionnaires to assess children’s percepti…
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- 978-3-319-18650-4
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- XI, 302
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- -
- Call Number
- 360 FAB i
Improving Schools Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and th…
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvem…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-929-5
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- XXII, 135
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- -
- Call Number
- 371 RAW i
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